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No sooner have we grown up than we start growing old – a melancholy reflection for which we can thank Spa! (Feb 12-19). You’re 20 years old, and working, let’s say, for a moving company, carrying heavy furniture into and out of houses, into and out of trucks. It’s hard …

A few months ago, one of my friends became visibly upset. When I asked her why, she said that her parents hadn’t responded to her in four hours, and she was beginning to worry. At first, I wanted to laugh because it seemed like something so minuscule, something I would …

Dr Marissa Parrott grew up surrounded by animals. Fish, frogs, turtles, cats, guinea pigs and even a horse. “As a three year old, I told my parents I was going to work in a zoo and breed animals,” she says, now 39. Dr Marissa Parrott always knew she wanted to …

Elisabeth Koja, 33, a housewife and mother of three in Mbapo village in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, has suffered from mental illness since 2006. Elsa, as she is called by her husband Maksimilianus Gano, began suffering the illness after giving birth to her first child Bela. Now Bela is in …

Especially these days, where now you can make money off of posts on Instagram, it’s all about practicing vocalizing what you’re worth. Sometimes people will ask me for my price on something and I’ll tell them and they’ll say, “Oh that’s no problem at all!” like it’s nothing. And then I’m …

Life as a parent to twins can be a logistical and emotional rollercoaster. There is the joy of double cuddles and double kisses, yet also the frustration of trying to get two little people fed, dressed and out of the house. What a lot of non-twin parents don’t realise however, …

If you’re a true crime podcasting aficionado, you might already be familiar with the heartbreaking case of the Jen and Sarah Hart and their adopted children. They were a white lesbian couple who seemed to be living a progressive fantasy of post-racial harmony with the six beautiful African-American children they …

Why is that there are so few women at managing director (MD) level in investment banks? That there are hardly any female strats? That even after decades of focusing on women‘s initiatives, banks like Goldman Sachs admit they still have a long way to go? At this week’s London conference for …